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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166649103321

Autore

Fisher Elaine M. <1984->

Titolo

Hindu Pluralism : Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India / / Elaine M. Fisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of California Press, 2017

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-520-96629-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 285 pages) : illustrations (colour), map; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

South Asia across the disciplines

Disciplina

294.50954/8

Soggetti

Religious pluralism - India, South

Hinduism - India, South

Electronic books.

India, South Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hindu sectarianism: difference in unity -- "Just like Kālidāsa": the making of the Smārta-Śaiva community of South India -- Public philology: constructing sectarian identities in early modern South India  -- The language games of Śaiva: mapping text and space in public religious culture -- Conclusion: a prehistory of Hindu pluralism.

Sommario/riassunto

"Much has been written about the historical origins of the unity of Hinduism. Hindu difference has been read through the lens of the term "sectarianism," a concept that translates devotion as dissent, and community as a potential precursor to communalism. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine. M. Fisher argues that it is the plurality of Hindu religious identities, and their embodiment and contestation in public space, that first reveals the emergence of Hinduism as a unified religion in south India and an integral feature of a distinctively Indic early modernity prior to British Colonialism."--Provided by publisher.